
131 | John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side, Saving Mr. Banks) On Empathy In Our Writing And Directing
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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The Transition From Director to Editor
When you finish a movie, do you have any kind of process of transition? Well, yeah. You go from, it's kind of a, I mean, it's every step of the way. It's an interpretation. And that's why I was fortunate enough, kind of my first movie I directed, Mike Richroad. I didn't write it. So I was able to just wear the hat as a director and say it's my job to interpret what came before. The next thing you know, there are 20 massive trucks at a location and you're driving up and saying, "Oh my God, I'm terrified"
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